A collection of short Christmas stories by Gibbons. The title story is prequel to Miss Post's arrival (as told in Cold Comfort Farm) and features Adam Lambsbreath draped in Mrs. Starkadders's shawls playing Father Christmas and a row between Great Aunt Ada and Mrs Beetle over the Christmas pudding fillers - a coffin nail means a death and a bad sixpence for financial ruin ! The other stories in this collection range from the Edwardian period to the 1940s and include: The Little Christmas Tree: To Love and To Cherish; The Murder Mark; The Hoofer and the Lady; Sisters; The Walled Garden; A Charming Man; Golden Vanity; Poor, Poor Black Sheep; More Than Kind; The Friend of Man; Tame Wild Party; Young Man in Rags; Cake; Mr Amberly's Brother.